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Though a North Texas native, I somehow never considered the Red River Valley a great getaway option—until recently. Tips from savvy friends piqued my curiosity about the stretch of landscape between Gainesville and Wichita Falls. Once my husband and I packed a bag and hit the highway, we quickly found makings for the perfect road trip, one populated with intriguing discoveries in a pair of tiny towns imbued with sizable doses of Chisholm Trail history.

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So as I planned a recent visit, I carefully plotted a stay at Migel House, patting myself on the back for booking a weekend when Baylor’s football team would be playing out of town. Wanting the town to myself for rummaging around shops and lingering in bistros, I foolishly overlooked other events—such as the annual fall Silobration shindig at Magnolia Market.

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Lukas Nelson comes by his success honestly; never mind that his father happens to be one of Texas’ most beloved musicians. The son of Willie Nelson and Annie D’Angelo, Lukas grew up just outside of Austin in Spicewood before moving to Maui, Hawaii, at age 10. He picked up the guitar at age 11, and by 13 was joining his father on stage for performances. When it came time for college in 2007, Lukas moved to Los Angeles, where he met drummer Anthony LoGerfo at a Neil Young concert.

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At Texas Highways , we’ve learned a few things over the years about spring wildflowers in Texas: We have lots of them, many kinds, all over the place. We’ve learned this, too: Once Mother Nature shakes off winter’s chill, there’s no better way to celebrate the new season than with a wildflower-focused road trip. This year, we picked four broad regions of the state and tracked down some of the best places to see wildflowers within each one.

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In early spring, Nacogdoches wears its azaleas like a princess wears her jewels: always and everywhere. It’s hard to find a corner of this small East Texas city not bedecked in plump, round blossoms of purple, pink, red, yellow, orange, and white. But when we talk about Nacogdoches being in full bloom right now, we’re not just talking about flowers. With restaurants, shops, and attractions springing forth, new seeds of cultural vitality are sprouting in the town’s flourishing beds of history.

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In September 2011, the most destructive wildfire in Texas history raged through the loblolly pines of Bastrop State Park. The deadly fire burned 32,000 acres in the area—including 96 percent of the 6,565-acre park. And like salt in a wound, 2015 brought more devastation: Flooding led to a dam failure on the park’s 10-acre lake, and another wildfire scorched an additional 4,600 acres.

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Wherever life has flourished across the vast territory of Texas, someone early on blazed a trail to get there. A new exhibit at The Witte Museum in San Antonio—Connecting Texas: 300 Years of Rails, Trails, and Roads—illustrates through a collection of more than 40 historic maps how people journeyed across Texas over the ages and laid the groundwork for the state as we know it today.

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The World’s Largest Bowie Knife stands on the main road to Bowie from US 287’s high-speed bypass. Dedicated in April 2016, the knife has helped keep the quiet Montague County town from being a blur for travelers in North Texas. The hamlet even earned a Guinness World Record certificate for the replica. “When the Knife finally went up, they said, ‘Oh, my gosh, how did you do that?’” says Van Baize, a retired bank executive who helped spearhead the project.

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Unlike its coastal cousins, the city of Pasadena to the immediate southeast of Houston is not usually considered a getaway destination. Thanks to its association with the 1980 film Urban Cowboy, Pasadena tends to conjure images of industrial refineries and roughnecks cutting loose on honky-tonk weekends, testing their mettle on a mechanical bull.

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Texans will have their own slice of N’awlins at Mardi Gras festivities across the state. The grande dame of Texas Mardi Gras celebrations attracts more than 300,000 people each year to dance in the streets of the city’s historic downtown. In Brazil, a weeklong party characterizes Carnaval, the Mardi Gras of the southern hemisphere. But for more than 40 years, the party has been consolidated to a single day in Austin—now lauded as the largest indoor Brazilian Carnaval in the world.

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